Windtalkers |  | Director: John Woo
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Format: Full Screen, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 134 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.8
MPN: MGMD1004026D
ISBN: 0792853784
UPC: 027616881335
EAN: 9780792853787
ASIN: B00005JK8K
Theatrical Release Date: June 14, 2002
Release Date: October 15, 2002
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Having earned Hollywood's respect with blockbusters like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2, Hong Kong action master John Woo lends his signature style to serious World War II action in Windtalkers. Recognizing the long-forgotten contribution of Navajo "code talkers," whose use of an unbreakable Navajo-language radio code was instrumental in defeating the Japanese, the film serves as an admirable tribute to those Native American heroes. Unfortunately, it falls short of importance with its standard-issue story about a battle-scarred sergeant (Nicolas Cage) assigned to protect a code-talker (Adam Beach, from Smoke Signals), with unspoken orders to kill him if Japanese capture is imminent. This allows for an involving drama of hard-won friendship, but cardboard supporting characters suffer in the shadow of nonstop action that's as repetitious as it is technically impressive. Windtalkers is best appreciated as a more substantial vehicle for Woo's trademark ballet of bullets. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
IN THIS EPIC WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE FROM JOHN WOO, NICOLAS CAGE STARS AS A BATTLE-WEARY MARINE WHO GUARDS AND ULTIMATELY BEFRIENDS A YOUNG NAVAJO TRAINED IN THE ONE WARTIME CODE NEVER BROKEN BY THE ENEMY, THE NAVAJO CODE.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 256
 Director John Woo February 1, 2010
D. Seda (Florida)
Action packed movie. Battle scenes were masterfully directed by John Woo. Blu-ray picture and sound are awesome.
Great at times, but a little uneven January 23, 2010
D. Doppes (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have seen this movie several times and I just finished the blu ray version, which is nice. There are moments of war movie "greatness" in this picture. The opening scenes in the Solomons with close quarter bayonet fighting are well done. The opening scenes of the invasian of Saipan are also great with an impressive eye for detail in regards to the scope of the battlefield. You can see Corsairs flying low and dropping their payload on Japanese bunkers. The fighting is intense and both armies take heavy losses in an intense confrontation. Towards the end of the movie the Japanese pull out heavy cannons that level Sherman tanbks at will, its great footage. The acting is well done too. But the problems are someimes hard to overlook. Too many times Japanese guys have Cage and his Navejo code talkers surrounded only to be shot to smithereens. In one scene towards the end, Cage uses his pistol to shoot 4 guys in an instant with their guns drawn. Not likely. And you can only see so many scenes where a grenade goes off sending 2 or 3 soldiers flying 10 feet in the air. This movie has a high body count and plenty of carnage, it isn't as concentrated as Saving Private Ryans first 30 minutes, however it easily tops that movie in overall killing. The story of the Indian code talkers and their role in the Pacific War is finally displayed here. I would rate this movie somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. It could have easily gotten 5 if it was tightened up a bit. I give it 4 for the great scenes and the fact that the Pacific war has so few movies for some reason. Here are some that you may know and some you may not.
The Battle Of Okinawa- a Japanese movie from 1971 very good
Letters From Iwo Jima- One of my favortes- Ken Wattanabe is great
Kukudo- An Australian movie, interesting, but not always accurate
Flags Of Our Fathers- Very good
Planetes Yamato- a good movie about the Yamato and its suicide mission at Okinawa- Japanese
I go die for you- A movie about the kamikaze- Japanese
A Thin Red Line- I like this one, but not everyone does. Good battle scenes
A shoot 'em up war flick with a twist November 16, 2009
Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States)
This is a pretty standard action combat film, with the sole innovation that the plot focuses on the contribution that the Navajo windtalkers made to the War in the Pacific. Here, the windtalkers are rightly shown as dedicated Marines, fine young lads making a unique contribution. The combat scenes, while unrealistic from numerous technical perspectives, are well-done most of the time. The film would have done better to engage in more characterization of the windtalkers themselves. We never really get to know them, but the glimpses that this film affords the viewer seems to show that if it had gone further down this road this could have been an outstanding film.
The film to its credit does a serviceable job of at least acquainting the viewer with the invaluable service that these Navajos gave to America. These were clearly some of America's finest young men who answered the call at a fateful time in the nation's history.
Overall this film holds the viewer's interest, but more characterization, focused on the Navajos themselves, would have been welcome. RJB.
 Windtalker history is minimal August 29, 2009
Rebecca Jennings (ND)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first heard about this movie, I couldn't wait to see it. I even broke the "let's wait until it is on video" rule we have in our family and went to see it in the movies. Having studied the Navajo codetalker's history , I couldn't believe how minimized their contribution was in the film.
Instead of a history on how this program came about, the selection of the participants or in indepth look at how they fared afterward, we get "treated" to a poorly filmed movie about Nicholase Cage and Christian Slater. Big deal. I kept saying throughout the movie," and when are we going to focus on the navajo codetalkers?" A huge hype for a mediocre action film. Not worth your time.
 Cage + Woo = Crap August 25, 2009
Uncle Chino (New Zealand)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie should have been good. But of course you have over acting king of crap Nicholas Cage and he is directed by slow mo dove guy John Woo. I like the idea of the movie. It should have been and could have been much better but it gets a one star from me cause the first time I watched it I thought it was awful. I have went back several times to give it another chance and it is just as bad. This movie sucked.
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